scholarly journals The Phenomenon of Volunteerism as a Reflection of the Traditional Value of Mutual Assistance and Support (to the 100th Anniversary of the Passing of P. A. Kropotkin)

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 262-272
Author(s):  
Mikhail A. Arefiev ◽  
Antonina G. Davydenkova ◽  
Anastasija A. Vasilenkova
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Healthy Human ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Mutual Assistance ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture

Introduction. Philosophy of culture one of the aspects of the subject field has an understanding of real cultural practice, based on multivariate reassessments of cultural traditions. The axiological component of the philosophy of culture affects the fundamental moral and ethical values of a person and society that contribute to social activity. The purpose of the article is to show the continuity of the ideological and practical volunteer movement, the importance of social activity of young people. Materials and Methods. In the article, the authors used the methodology of cultural and comparative analysis, the historical and philosophical approach to the problem, and the method of comparative studies. Among the historical foundations of axiology, there is a distinction between what is due and what is, concepts that unite ideas about ethics, human activity itself and its evaluation. The anarcho-communitarian construction of Prince Kropotkin’s ethics makes a significant contribution to this outline of reasoning, sets the guidelines for healthy human relations. The results of the Study. The principles of the evolutionary development of mutual assistance and support, solidarity and altruism, developed by the ethical philosopher and natural scientist Kropotkin in natural science and ethical works, in fact, were not only the theoretical basis of the philosophy of culture, but can also serve as guidelines for the practical activities and axiology of modern volunteers of the XXI century. Discussion. The article considers volunteerism as a continuation of a significant value tradition of mutual assistance and support, which has its historical incarnations. Solidarity, justice, altruism, instinct and the moral sense of a person – these are the main concepts of Kropotkin ethics as a doctrine of morality in its broadest sense. This year, the Russian scientific community is celebrating the centenary of the passing of P. A. Kropotkin. In this regard, it is particularly relevant to develop the principles of mutual assistance and support, which are practically in demand in the context of the cornavirus pandemic. Conclusions. The principles of the evolutionary development of mutual assistance and support, solidarity and altruism, developed by the ethical philosopher and natural scientist Kropotkin in natural science and ethical works, in fact, were not only the theoretical basis of the philosophy of culture, but also the practical activity of the axiology of modern volunteers of the XXI century, a manifestation of human social activity.

Life in the Open with Charles Frederick Holder

2014 ◽  
Vol 96 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-221
Author(s):  
Jane Apostol
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Children's Books ◽  
Children’S Books ◽  
Sport Fishing ◽  
Prolific Author ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Santa Catalina Island

Natural scientist Charles Frederick Holder settled in Pasadena in 1885. As a prolific author, lecturer, and editor, Holder was a key promoter of the region, sport fishing, and natural science. He wrote popular children’s books as well. He is also remembered as an influential figure in education and the arts and as a founder of the Tuna Club on Santa Catalina Island and the Valley Hunt Club in Pasadena and its Tournament of Roses.

scholarly journals Analysis of the military-economic potential of some countries of the world

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mykola Tkach ◽  
Ivan Tkach
Keyword(s):  
Social Activity ◽  
The State ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Economic Potential ◽  
National Interests ◽  
Military Equipment ◽  
The World ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship

The article is interesting for specialists, both in economic and defense spheres. In the context of increasing tension in relations between the states, of the world there is an increase in their defense budgets and the increase in the number of new weapons and military equipment systems and their evolutionary development. Such a reaction of states is logical, since it is the build-up of military capabilities that will ensure the protection of national interests.  At the same time, the basis for the development of military might is the economy, which provides the opportunity to manufacture and procure weapons. It is the degree of economic development of the state that allows it to move scientific and technological progress and realize its results in all spheres of social activity, including the production of high-tech weapons. The article shows the relationship between such concepts as economic potential and military potential of the state, namely the impossibility of developing a military potential without the development of economic potential. Having carried out mathematical calculations on the basis of selected indicators of potentials, the military-economic potentials of some advanced states of the world, as well as some developing countries, were discovered. possibility of development of military potential without development of economic potential are shown. Such a comparative analysis allowed to partly assess the balance of power in the world and draw conclusions about understanding of the processes of interaction between states.

scholarly journals V. S. Stepin’s Concept of Post-Non-Classical Science and N. N. Moiseev’s Concept of Universal Evolutionism

2019 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 96-112 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. I. Arshinov ◽  
V. G. Budanov
Keyword(s):  
Selection Process ◽  
Evolutionary Development ◽  
Scientific Legacy ◽  
Philosophical Foundations ◽  
Development Scenarios ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Quantum Reality ◽  
Hybrid Construct ◽  
Quality Of Research

The article is devoted to the memory of Vyacheslav Semenovich Stepin and Nikita Nikolaevich Moiseev, whose multifaceted work was integrally focused on philosophical, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research of the key ideas and principles of universal human-dimensional evolutionism. Other remarkable Russian scientists V.I. Vernadsky, S.P. Kurdyumov, S.P. Kapitsa, D.S. Chernavsky worked in the same tradition of universal evolutionism. While V.I. Vernadsky and N.N. Moiseev had been the originators of that scientific approach, V.S. Stepin provided philosophical foundations for the ideas of those remarkable scientists and thinkers. The scientific legacy of V.S. Stepin and N.N. Moiseev maintained the formation of a new quality of research into the philosophy of science and technology as well as into the philosophy of culture. This new quality is multidimensional and it is difficult to define unambiguously, but we presume the formation of those areas of philosophical knowledge as constructively oriented languages of interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary co-participation of philosophy in the convergent-evolutionary development of scientific knowledge in general. In this regard, attention is paid to V.S. Stepin’s affirmations about non-classical nature of modern social and humanitarian knowledge. Quantum mechanics teaches us that the reality revealed through it is a hybrid construct, or symbiosis, of both mean and object of cognition. Therefore, the very act of cognitive observation constructs quantum reality. Thus, it is very close to the process of cognition in modern sociology and psychology. V.S. Stepin insisted that these principles are applicable to all complex selfdeveloping systems, and such are all “human-dimensional” objects of modern humanities. In all the phases of homeostasis changes, or crises, there is necessarily a share of chaos, instability, uncertainty in the selection process of future development scenarios, which is ineliminably affected by our observation. Therefore, a cognitive observer in the humanities should be considered as a concept of post-non-classical rationality, that is as an observer of complexity.

scholarly journals MULTIFRACTALITY OF NETWORK MEDIACOMMUNICATIONS IN THE INFORMATION CIVILIZATION: PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECT

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 333-343
Author(s):  
I.A. Latypov
Keyword(s):  
Social Philosophy ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Philosophical Theory ◽  
Main Hypothesis ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Philosophy Of Culture ◽  
Social Communications ◽  
Philosophical Aspect ◽  
Self Similar ◽  
Object Of Study

The paper describes the philosophical context of multifractal characteristics of network mediacommunications development trends. The analysis of these trends shapes the contours of new subject field of not only socio-philosophical or cultural studies, but also inter-disciplinary researches of the multifractality phenomenon as a whole. Consideration of the multifractal prospects from the point of view of social philosophy of culture of an informational society is a kind of inter-disciplinary research in a sphere of philosophical works. The paper forms a discourse of the multifractal mediacommunications in a global networking space. Mediacommunications in this research are defined as a kind of social communications in a media sphere. The main problem of the research may be reduced to the question: is it possible to characterize the issue of multifractality of network mediacommunications in a philosophical context? The purpose of the research is the analysis of the philosophical aspect of multifractality of network mediacommunications in the information civilization. The object of study is a variety of processes of social communications development connected to the prospects of modern mediacommunications. The main hypothesis formulated in the research is that elaboration of the philosophical theory of global networking mediacommunications may be of a fractal-like nature. The concept of multifractality is defined as a process and result of designing complex self-similar structures based on the consistent use of several algorithms to create different fractals.

scholarly journals Socio-political and civil activity of young people: Between massification and individualization

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-22
Author(s):  
Svetlana Yu. Popova ◽  
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Antonina V. Selezneva ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Young People ◽  
Theoretical Analysis ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Behavioral Activity ◽  
Self Awareness ◽  
Business And Society ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Civic Activity ◽  
The Individual

The purpose of the study presented in the article is a theoretical analysis of socio-political and civic activity of young people in the context of processes of individualization and massification as contradictory but interdependent trends in the development of modern society. The relevance of the study is supported by the need for scientific understanding of conditions under which the formation of social and political subjectivity of young people and their choice of these types of activity take place. We presented data of the theoretical analysis of the “social activity” concept with a particular focus on its psychological structure, namely on the cognitive, emotional, motivational, reflexive, volitional and behavioral (activity) components. We substantively described determinants of the socio-political and civic activity of young people, to which we attributed internal psychological (consciousness and self-awareness of the individual, interests and motivation) and external socio-political factors (internal and external political, socio-cultural, informational and communicative context of life). It is shown that the study of modern young people’s activity presupposes inclusion of the subject field of the parameters of personal and social responsibility and the conscious choice of an individual between passionarity and desubjectivity into the scientific analysis. The applied aspect of the problem under study can be used as a tool for development of socially active young people who are focused on constructive interaction with the state, business, and society as a whole.

The Conservative Side of the Natural Science

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adib Rifqi Setiawan
Keyword(s):  
Black Hole ◽  
Free Will ◽  
Early Universe ◽  
Natural Science ◽  
Molecular Basis ◽  
Evolutionary Tree ◽  
Primordial Black Hole ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
Classical Physics ◽  
Modern Physics

Natural scientist — like physicist and biologist — may think themselves as liberal. They seem, however, to have a strong conservative that impacts diversity in research and unity in thinking. I explored why this conservative in direction exists in the literature and the implications that it has on our — as human — choices for research and thinking about nature. My exploration revealed that the directional conservative expressed by ‘conserved from species X to human’ that indicate from lower to higher organism. In physics, as well, the directional conservative expressed by ‘make a Y or Z from modern physics theory analogous to the classical one’ that indicate we are still working to figure out the details of how classical physics emerge from the modern domain. It implications on our choices for research is make us feel confusion to answer questions like: ‘Can one have atoms in which the nucleus is a tiny primordial black hole formed in the early universe?’ in physics, nor ‘If human have free will, where in the evolutionary tree did it develop?’ in biology. The conservative also implicates on our thinking about nature that hard to imagine how free will can operate if our behavior — as ‘higher’ organism — is determined by physical law based on our understanding of the molecular basis of biology.

Interreligious Cultural Practice as Lived Reality

2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-90
Author(s):  
Eckehard Pistrick
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Identity ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Common Ground ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Cultural Practice ◽  
Grass Roots ◽  
Economic Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Shared Practice ◽  
Level I

This essay provides grass-roots insights into interreligiosity in Middle Albania. I focus on two individuals, Muslim Arif and Orthodox Anastas, to show how notions of cultural intimacy prevail over hegemonic discourses on religious identity that have re-emerged in postsocialist and 'post-atheist' Albania. The process of religious revitalisation took place simultaneously with a pervasive reshaping of local cultural identity. These discourses give simultaneously an opportunity for religious differentiation and symbolic contestations, as well as for diverse collaborations on a social, cultural and economic level. I illustrate how cultural intimacy is performed and cultivated as a shared practice of multipart singing, and understood by the local shepherds not as a marker of difference but as common ground for mutual dialogue. By sharing the social activity of singing the shepherds do not only form a 'sonic community' but also celebrate an interreligious 'community of friends'.

scholarly journals TEMPORALITY OF SOCIAL REALITY AND STRUCTURE OF LAN-GUAGE

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lidiya Gaznyuk ◽  
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Iryna Soina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Interpersonal Communication ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Fundamental Problem ◽  
Social Activity ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Original Text ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Object A ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Linguistic Reality

All human activity is associated with the need for interpersonal communication. The need and concern for other people, as for oneself, is a specific feature of the human race, in which biological necessity acts simultaneously, that is, a person's speech and the individuals themselves are necessarily included in the social and humanitarian context. Considering the linguistic reality of social life in the form of a text, we leave the person as the main object of research. Thus, the original text of modern society is formed, which includes the worldview of people and the features of the mental system of their interaction, the way and nature of existence, a kind of sign system in the form of fixed information. The understanding is presented that speech does not reflect the meaning of things and processes of a certain field of activity, but reveals their content and gives meaning within the framework of practical activity. The mechanism of the genetic application of concepts in a certain historical territory and the process of the formation of the semiotic space of social knowledge and the procedure for recognizing its words-signs are substantiated, thanks to which the sys-tem of understanding the mentality in intellectual discourse is built. The fundamental problem of the relationship between real time and language is analyzed, the fundamental foundations of the formation of the complete semantic structure of language: an immediate feature – an object – a mediating feature – an indirect feature, taking into account the specifics of human social activity. The existential relations of symbolic-semiotic structures in the plane of interaction of the subject field of signs and the place of the subject with the help of semantics are determined, which provides a differentiated modality of the specified relationship, the structure and levels of meanings, the moments of actualization of the designated and places the terms of the specified relationship in a specific social field of their existence; it is proved that a person acts as a signified and is partially included in the models that form his attitude to the surrounding social being, but at the same time he remains signified, that is, those on whom the formation of these models indirectly depends. The study allows us to comprehend the holistic representation of the linguistic reality of the modern architectonics of social and humanitarian knowledge in the process of globalization transformations of the world in its main dimensions and forms.

Alexander von Humboldt: the Outstanding Natural Scientist, the Silent Ideologist of Multiculturalism

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
Raisa Ed. Barash ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Natural Science ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Social Problems ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Natural Scientist ◽  
Social Transformations ◽  
Alexander Von Humboldt ◽  
Personal Conversation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Liberal Position

The author studies the reception of A. von Humboldt of the humanitarian prob­lems of his time. In his works Humboldt articulated many ideas of the just social order and even of multiculturalism. But despite great interest towards the natural science of the regions he visited, the researcher avoided public judgments about social problems of these states’ residents. A. Humboldt criticized many actual so­cial problems: aggressive cultural assimilation, colonialism, slavery, social in­equality etc., but avoided public demands of social transformations in the re­gions he visited. He either could reject any violent social transformations or looking for loyalty of the state’s authorities, that financed and organized his ex­peditions. A. Humboldt, the opponent of slavery, never once spoke critically about slavery in a personal conversation or correspondence with T. Jefferson. During his journey across Russia, the scientist was extremely careful in his judg­ments about the Russian bondmen. The inconsistency of the Humboldt’s per­sonal liberal position and his humanitarian blindness to socio-political problems illustrates the problem of the relationship between people of authority and people of knowledge, that was announce by F. Znanetsky. Humboldt who was primarily such a lay counselor just focused on his own academic research thar was his main priority.

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